2024-03-22 17:59:00
After suffering from cancer… What is the “preventive chemotherapy” that Kate Middleton receives?
The announcement of Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales, wife of British Crown Prince William, that she had cancer came as a thunderbolt. The princess, who spoke boldly and courageously regarding undergoing “preventive” chemotherapy, left people confused regarding this type of treatment and the type of malignancy she contracted, especially since she did not tell the public the details of the disease and merely said that the past two months had been “very difficult for our entire family.”
According to The Independent, chemotherapy is a term used to treat a person with cancer and is used to kill cells, although Kate specifically used the term “preventive chemotherapy.”
Kate said: “In January, I had major abdominal surgery in London, and it was thought at the time that my condition was non-cancerous. The surgery was successful. However, tests following the operation showed cancer. Therefore, my medical team advised me that I should undergo a course of preventive chemotherapy, and I am now in the early stages of this treatment.”
What is “preventive chemotherapy”?
According to The Independent, preventive chemotherapy is not an official National Health Service (NSH) term for a type of treatment, but chemotherapy may be used when cancerous cells are identified. No further information was provided regarding Kate’s cancer or the type of treatment she is receiving.
But the newspaper explained that there are current treatments called “chemoprevention” that reduce the risk of cancer developing or returning in healthy people, and the newspaper gave the example that it is currently being used for people who have not had breast cancer but are more susceptible to it due to their genetic family history.
British Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton (AP)
In contrast, the New York Post defined “preventive chemotherapy” as a type of treatment used to reduce a person’s risk of developing some types of cancer or to prevent its recurrence.
This treatment is also known as chemoprevention or adjuvant therapy, and is suitable for someone who is at greater risk of developing certain types of cancer due to family history, lifestyle, or a pre-cancerous condition, according to the New York Post.
Adjuvant therapy may be used when other treatment methods are not effective, although the choice to undergo preventive chemotherapy depends on the type and stage of the cancer, whether it is receptive to hormone therapy and the number of lymph nodes involved, according to the Mayo Clinic.
A photo of Princess Kate with her husband, Prince William, King Charles and his wife, Queen Camilla (Reuters)
How it works?
Chemotherapy drugs are usually used to kill cancer cells. The drugs disrupt the way cancer cells grow and divide, thus preventing cancer cells from growing and spreading in the body.
According to the Royal Marsden Hospital, which specializes in treating cancer, chemotherapy called adjuvant therapy is sometimes used to help destroy cancer cells that may remain following surgery or radiotherapy.
The New York Post noted that following the successful removal of cancerous or precancerous cells, undetectable microscopic cancer cells may remain in the body and lead to cancer recurrence months or years following initial treatment or entering a remission phase.
According to the World Health Organization, there is a public health approach called “preventive chemotherapy,” which is used on entire populations, where drugs are given on a large scale to prevent specific diseases. These include lymphatic filariasis, commonly known as elephantiasis.
What type of chemotherapy can Kate get?
In this area, The Telegraph newspaper explained that neoadjuvant chemotherapy is a term used to describe chemotherapy that is used before another intervention such as surgery or radiotherapy to improve the success rate of subsequent interventions.
Only following a treatable cancer is diagnosed can the patient’s medical team offer chemotherapy. Either before surgery to improve its effectiveness, or following surgery to prevent the cancer from returning, according to “The Telegraph.”
She explained that this treatment is used in multiple types of cancer, including colorectal cancer and bladder cancer.
What happens when you receive chemotherapy?
If cancer is diagnosed, chemotherapy can help improve outcomes. It is a treatment given intravenously like an injection and works by killing some of the cancer cells, so they can shrink the mass. This, in turn, makes surgery easier, according to The Telegraph.
She also pointed out that sometimes when a person has cancer, cancer cells spread from the mass and remain in the blood. They are often small, hidden, and difficult to detect, so they will not appear during the examination. Chemotherapy is therefore useful in this scenario because it is a systemic treatment, circulating throughout the body and mopping up any escaped cancer cells. This reduces the risk of the cancer coming back following surgery.
What are the side effects?
Most people feel completely fine following receiving chemotherapy in preparation for surgery, and they may feel more tired, especially since there are multiple visits to the hospital, according to The Telegraph.
But Healthline indicated that chemotherapy drugs that kill rapidly growing cancer cells can also harm healthy cells, causing short-term gastrointestinal side effects such as nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, diarrhea, constipation, and weight loss.
How much time would Kate need to complete treatment?
In this area, the New York Post reported that adjuvant chemotherapy can last for weeks or even years, and it systematically attacks those cells and eliminates existing disease, which reduces the risk of disease recurrence.
As for “The Telegraph” newspaper, it explained that the treatment time depends on the extent of the patient’s need for chemotherapy.
Sometimes the medical team plans to do three cycles with a patient, but in reality, if they have very bad side effects following two cycles, medical professionals may stop them, she said.
The controversial photo released by Kensington Palace of British Princess Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales, with her children, Prince Louis, Prince George, and Princess Charlotte (Reuters)
The Princess of Wales has made headlines over the past few months, and the photo published by Kensington Palace, which turned out to be doctored, has fueled conspiracy theories that have undermined efforts to reassure the public regarding Princess Kate’s health, and some have even come to doubt that the Princess of Wales is still alive. life.
This incident led to a stream of theories regarding the wife of the heir to the British throne, collected online under the name “Katespiracy,” a term that combines the words Kate and “Conspiracy.” These rumors, which were fueled by the princess’s absence from public appearances since Christmas and her undergoing abdominal surgery in January, began long before the photo was published.
Some believed that Kate was recovering from an eating disorder or plastic surgery, while others saw her absence as a sign that her marriage to Prince William was faltering. While others wondered if Kate was still alive.
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